Design-transferring apparatus.



PATENTED JAN. 14, 1908.

A. G. SCHULTZ. DESIGN TRANSFERRING APPARATUS.v

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 7, 1907.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented J an. 14, 1908.

Application filed September 7. 1907. Serial No. 391.812.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that l, ARTHUR G. SCHULTZ, citizen of the United States, residing at New Orleans, inv the parish of Orleans and State of Louisiana, have invented new'and useful Improvements in Design-Transferring Apparatus, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has to do with engraving; and it seeks the provision of a-simple and easily operated apparatus through the medi um of which the design engraved on a spoon bowl or other piece of silver or other ware may be expeditiously, distinctly and accurately. printed on another spoon bowl or other piece of ware with a view of facilitating and rendering easy the duplication of the engraving therein.

The invention'is designed more particularlyfor use in connection with spoons and the like and its novelty, utility and practical advantages will be fully understood from the following description and claims when the same are read in connection'with the drawings, accompanying and forming part of this specification, inwhich:

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the apparatus constituting the preferredembodiment of my invention; the same being shown With a spoon properly POSitlOIlGd'thGiGOII. Fig. 2 is Fig. 3 is a a plan view of the apparatus. cross-section taken through the bed of the apparatus in the plane indicated by the line w-m of Fig. 2.

Similar letters designate corresponding parts in' all of the views of the drawings, re

erring to which:

dis the bed of my novel apparatus, which is preferabl thou h not; necessarily, made of metal. d he sai bed is preferably of the shape shown in Fig. 2, and is provided in its forward portion with a gr-ou of vertically disposed apertures 9% designs to receive-removable spoon positioning or holding pegs m. Formed in the bed d and extending rearward from a point adjacent to the group of a ertures 'n 18 a longitudinal-central slot t w ich communicates with a lon itudinal recess a formed in the undersideo the bed d, for a purpose presently set forth.

A is a slide bracket arranged on the bed d and having a forward spoon ositioning or holding portion 0 of V-shape in plan.

B is a block movable in the recess i) having a screw 1' extending up through theslot t, and P is a lever-nut mounted on the screw r.

By virtue of this construction it will be a parent that the holder 0 may be adjustaby fixed at various distances from the group of apertures n so. as to hold the handles of spoons of various lengths While the bowl thereof rests ,on the bed above the center of thegroup of apertures n.

C C are standards fixed to and rising from the rear portion of the bed (1.

a is a vertically swinging lever iulcrumed between the standards 0 on a transverse pin 1) and having a rearwardly and up- Wardly extending arm and f is a tracti spring connecting arm 6 and a screw g in the bed d having 'for its office to normally hold the lever a in and return the same to the position shown in Fig. 1:. At its. forward end the lever a is provided with a knob h and a socket w, the latter being designed to receive the stem of .a body i, preferably of metal, on. which is a pad Lei-rubber, glue or other suitable material, shaped to correspond to the article the engraved design of which is to be transferred'to another and correspondingly shaped article. The'stem of the pad 1 is removably fixed in the socket to through the medium of a set screw it and hence it will be apparent'that a-plurality of pads lot diilerent shapesand sizes may be used interchangeably in the lever a as occa: sion demands. The practical o eration of my novel apparatus isas fol ovvs: The spoon, the engraved design of which isto e transferred to another s oon, is arranged on the bed at and is secure y held in position by the holder an then the forward end of the lever is depressed, vvhen the pad I will accurately take the design from 'the spoonbowl. The spoon is then removed'from the apparatus,

and the spoon to which the design is to be transferred is placed in exactly the same position as the first mentioned spoon on the bed d and then the lever a is again depressed, When the designwill be accurately printed. on the bowl of the second mentioned s oon. With this done, the second mentioned spoon is removed for engraving, and

by reason of the engraved design being printed on the spoon as stated, it will be manifest that the engraving may be very easily and accurately eflected so as to make the second mentioned spoon an exact duplicate of the first mentioned one.'

W hile I have described my novel apparatus as apparatus designed more especially for use connection with the engraving of s'goons, I desire it distinctly understood that t e apparatus is designed and may be used to advantage for facilitating the transfer of engraved designs from various articles of silver and other wear to corresponding arti- 0 es, 4

The construction herein shown and described constitutes the preferred embodiment of my invention, but it is obvious that in the future practice of the invention such changes or modifications may be made as fairly fall within the scope of my invention as defined in the claims appended.

Having described my invention, what I claim and desire to secure by Letters-Patent, is:

apparatus for the purpose described,

comprising a bed having a group of apertures, a plurality of pegs removably arranged in some of the a ertures, a holder of V-shape in plan adjusta is toward and from the group of apertures and adjustably connected with the bed, standards fixed to and rising from the bed, at a point in rear of the holder, a vertically swinging lever fulcrumed between the standards and having a rear- Wardly extending arm, a tractile spring interposed between said arm of the lever and the bed, and a pad of a nature to take up and apply ink, grease or the like, connected with and carried by the forward portion of the lever.

In testimony Whereofl have hereunto set my hand'in presence of two subscribing witnessesi ARTHUR e. SCHULTZ.

Witnesses:

V F. M: BARTLETT, LOUIS P. BRYANT 

